I visited Seattle on business this week (one year from retirement—looking forward to no more business travel :-) ).
The street people are even wackier than I remembered. Highlights included one bedraggled-looking woman screaming at the top of her lungs during morning rush hour on 2nd St. in the middle of dozens of pedestrians. She had a carriage full of junk of some sort and her screams were incoherent.
Then there was the homeless guy who wandered into the hotel lobby and started yelling angrily at the desk clerk—something about a taxi—like this guy could afford a taxi. :-)
Seattle would be such a beautiful city if they could just send the homeless somewhere else—like San Francisco!
“...if they could just send the homeless somewhere else...”
Well that’s just stupid! Why would you set up all sorts of benefits for homeless people (fancy public toilets, heroin injection zones, outreach programs to tent people, etc.) to attract the homeless - and then ship them off!?
Oh - and legal pot. I almost forgot!
Portland Maine, formerly a great small city is like this now and a destination for the Homeless and immigrants and illegal aliens because of the great benefits. Tragic loss of nice places